by Dorothée van Hooff | Feb 10, 2017 | News Release
A team of MOIC and Digitalis met with a delegation from the Czech Ministry of Health in Prague on February 8. The Czech team was led by Dr Alena Tomaskova, Director of the Department of Pharmacy at the Ministry. The meeting took place in the frame of an EU sponsored project to foster twinning between reference sites of the European Innovation Platform on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA).
The MOIC team and partner Digitalis introduced the concept of medicines optimisation in general and demonstrated the clinical procurement system STEPSelect. This system was co-developed in Northern Ireland and is widely used in this part of the U.K. for the selection and procurement of medicines and medical devices. The Czech Ministry would welcome a pilot with STEPSelect and is looking forward to collaborate with their Northern Irish partners.
by Dorothée van Hooff | Feb 7, 2017 | Events, News Release
The Spring 2017 PM Academy Workshop programme is online. The programme is entitled ‘Working Better Together: How to build multidisciplinary and multiagency teams to improve patient care’ and consists of whole day courses taking place at 10 locations around the United Kingdom. This unique PM Academy programme will focus on how to deliver projects requiring the input of multiple teams or organisations.
The Academy Workshop in Northern Ireland will take place on Tuesday 23 May 2017 at the Maldron Hotel Belfast, Belfast International Airport, Belfast BT29 4ZY from 10am to 4pm.
For the press release: the Pharmacy In Focus website.
To book your place – simply go to www.pharman.co.uk/events.
For further information, please contact Katie Fraser (Senior Executive Assistant, Pharmacy Management) at katie.fraser@pharman.co.uk or on 01747 829501.
by Dorothée van Hooff | Feb 3, 2017 | Events, News Release
It was the first ever conference focused solely on Respiratory Medicines Optimisation. The National Medicines Optimisation in Respiratory Medicine Workshop was a joint meeting organised by Pharmacy Management in partnership with UKCPA.
The Journal of Medicines Optimisation (JoMO) has worked with the Respiratory Specialist Interest Group of the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA) to create a day of satellite sessions that will deliver quality learning quality and best practice exchange for all sectors of pharmacy. MOIC presented its mission, projects and programmes at the conference.
Location: MacDonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham, 1 February 2017
Main picture: Kelly Lefteri, Head of Pharmacy Practice, University of Hertfordshire, at the MOIC stand.
Jamila Dhansey, Medicines Quality, Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group, at the MOIC stand.
Rachel Galway, Clinical Pharmacist, NHSCT, at the MOIC stand.
Anitia Hogg, Lead for Pharmaceutical Clinical Effectiveness, MOIC, with a visitor at the MOIC stand.
by Dorothée van Hooff | Jan 19, 2017 | News Release
During a 2 day meeting of the MOIC/Digitalis team with their counterpart at the Gdanski Uniwersytet Medyczny (Gdansk Medical University) the participants worked on introducing STEPSelect technology in the hospital. STEPSelect is a combination of a knowledge system (MATRIX productions) and an instrument to induce consensus decision making about therapeutic choices (webbased SOJA methodology). The teams developed more than 40 different MATRIXes on different therapeutic classes, to be used at the UCK (Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne, the University Clinical Centre in Gdansk).
Pilot LMWHs
The next step is a pilot with STEPSelect on LMWHs (Low Molecular Weight Heparin, a class of anticoagulant medications) using the MATRIX as developed in Northern Ireland. The pilot will be a joined effort of UCK (Tomas Stefaniak, Pawel Faczynski), MOIC (Frans van Andel, Michael Scott) and Digitalis (Rob Brenninkmeijer, Rob Janknegt). In February at least 20 clinicians at UCK will be trained in LMWH MATRIX. Target is to finalise, execute, evaluate and introduce the LMWH project by October 2017.
MOIC/Digitalis Team: Frans van Andel (MOIC), Rob Brenninkmeijer (Digitalis) and Rob Janknegt (Digitalis, Zuyderland Mc). Location: UCK, Gdansk Medical University, 17-18 January 2017.
Rob Janknegt (Digitalis, Zuyderland Mc), presentation on STEPSelect, Gdansk Medical University.
Rob Brenninkmeijer (Digitalis) working on STEPSelect with clinicians of Gdansk Medical University.
Rob Janknegt (Digitalis, Zuyderland Mc) with clinicians of Gdansk Medical University.
by Dorothée van Hooff | Dec 9, 2016 | Events, News Release
Mike Scott, Director MOIC, and Mark Lee, with the European Reference Site Award. The ceremony took place during the second European Summit on Digital Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing, Brussels, 6-7 December 2016. Northern Ireland achieved the highest recognition of 4 Star Reference Site Status from the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA).
Information on the European Summit on Digital Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing.
